(Paperback)
By: R A Bagnold
ISBN: 9781906011338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2010
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.
(Hardback)
By: Cecilia Blomdahl
ISBN: 9780744095098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2024
Publisher: DK
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(Hardback)
By: Paul Manser
ISBN: 9781743797464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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(Hardback)
By: John McMurtrie
ISBN: 9781761451072
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 9781786576217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2016
Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Limited
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Unexpected stories from unexpected places. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali.
(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Chatwin
ISBN: 9781526131577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the citys recent history, explaining how the present and future of the worlds rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through to the present day.
(Paperback)
By: Charley Boorman
ISBN: 9780751538953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travel down through Africa in a fascinating new biking adventure
(Paperback)
By: Ewan McGregor
ISBN: 9780751536805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Film star Ewan McGregor travels around the world by motorcycle with his best friend, actor Charley Boorman - a unique and fascinating travel/adventure book
(Paperback)
By: Tom Chesshyre
ISBN: 9781837992959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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From Penrith to Ullswater, via Keswick, Cockermouth, Coniston, Grasmere and Windermere, plus many places in between, Tom Chesshyre puts on his walking boots and sets forth along the trails, drawn onwards by the dramatic scenery.
This is the Lake District seen from its walking paths - with just a backpack, an open mind... and a spring in the step.
(Paperback)
By: Alex Kerr
ISBN: 9780141979748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Originally written in Japanese, this book offers an insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future.
(Paperback)
By: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781529112214
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 9780719566912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 19th July 2004
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.
(Paperback)
By: M.F.K. Fisher
ISBN: 9781911547372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2019
Publisher: Daunt Books
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Fisher's memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,' and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
(Paperback)
By: Pete Mccarthy
ISBN: 9780340766057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2001
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Number One in Ireland!
Number Two in Australia!
Number Ten in Britain!
(Paperback, UK ed.)
By: Mark Adams
ISBN: 9781922182746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Charmian Clift
ISBN: 9780732268862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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these two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's are re-released here in one volume to coincide with the publication of Nadia Wheatley's landmark biography of Charmian.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Palin
ISBN: 9781474625838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A winning combination of No.1 travel writer Michael Palin and one of the great literary figures of the century.
(Hardback)
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
ISBN: 9781846047022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2023
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Catherine Moorehead
ISBN: 9781780278315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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A legend among mountaineers, Doug Scott's expeditions, undertaken over a period of four decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalayas to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and Alaska. It includes his famous 'epic' on The Ogre, one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb.
(Hardback)
By: Ian McMillan
ISBN: 9781472982940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Celebrated poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan transports you to a world of childhoods by the sea in this warm, darkly funny and sublimely crafted book.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Palin
ISBN: 9781474625784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places.
(Paperback)
By: Denis Dwyer
ISBN: 9781869664916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Upstart Press Ltd
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Denis Dwyer has loved rail travel since he travelled by steam train as a boy from Oamaru to Invercargill. Here he travels by rail through New Zealand, bringing the journeys alive with detail and humour.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Elder
ISBN: 9780864738370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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A collection of fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, posters, and cartoons.
(Hardback)
By: Amy and Dave Freeman
ISBN: 9781571311689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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